Vis-À-Vis: A Day With French & American Writers

The Vis-À-Vis: A Day With French & American Writers literary festival in Venice, California is in its inaugural year this May 2010. As stated in the literary event’s blog – “The driving force behind this project is the idea of dialogue, whether between France and America, or between the written and spoken words, for the American public and the French community.” Today’s program consists of three author panels, two children’s workshops, and one cocktail hour. I am attending two of the author panels, both of which are in Abbot Kinney Boulevard venues. The panels are:

“The novel vs. cinema and television”
Philippe Djian / Steve Erickson / Norman Klein
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Consortium Gallery

“Writing on the city, writing on the margins”
James Frey / Richard Lange / Jean Rolin
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the G2 Gallery

As a lover of all things French, I am looking forward to a day of hearing French, reading French, and perhaps even speaking French. Most importantly, this free festival is a chance to increase my literary awareness of contemporary French and American writers. However I do regret that I won’t be eating or drinking French today. That will have to be a treat for another day – perhaps while reading a work by one of the festival’s authors. Bonne lecture!


Images:
Left: Consortium logo from the website consortium-studios.com
Center: Front side of the Vis-À-Vis postcard

Right: G2 Galley from the website theg2gallery.com